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Another case for the PDF detectives: The mystery of the disappearing / appearing text

Tue - 02/25/2020

It’s been quite a while since we’ve done one of these. A few years ago, we presented a PDF Days talk entitled “7 cases for the PDF support detectives” which detailed a variety of mysterious PDF issues that we’ve solved over the years.

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20th Birthday Release: iText 7.1.10

Fri - 02/14/2020

14th February 2020... It’s a date which has been carved in the minds of our developers here at iText for several months now. And it’s not because it’s a day we want to spend with our loved ones at home. It’s because that’s the day the iText library, which we are working on daily, marks its 20th birthday: Feb 14, 2000 is the day when we released our first lines of code!

Now, twenty years on, we’re at iText Core version 7.1.10!

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New product release: Convert PDF to images with iText pdfRender

Mon - 01/20/2020

Introducing a new iText 7 add-on, pdfRender, which allows you to render PDFs as images. Powered by IDRsolutions, pdfRender integrates with iText 7 to enable the display of PDF content as easily as displaying an image.

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iText 7.1.9 Release - Now with better text extraction, SVG support and XFA improvements!

Mon - 12/02/2019

We're pleased to announce iText 7.1.9, our latest (and last of 2019!) quarterly release.
This release includes further documentation and SVG improvements, as well as updated versions of the pdfHTML, pdfXFA and pdf2Data add-ons.

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Can we use machine learning to achieve PDF/UA compliance?

Wed - 11/27/2019

We discuss the future of accessibility and PDFs, and how we could use AI to help machines to read.

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Displaying text in different languages in a single PDF document

Tue - 10/08/2019

We show how you can use iText 7 with pdfCalligraph to correctly display different languages in a single PDF, including right-to-left scripts like Hebrew and Arabic.

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iText 7.1.8 – Now with added XFDF, .NET API docs and more!

Thu - 09/19/2019

We’re pleased to announce iText 7.1.8, our latest quarterly release. Despite the minor release number, we think it counts as a pretty significant update as in addition to various improvements and bug fixes in our kernel and layout modules, iText 7.1.8 adds support for XFDF, the XML Forms Data Format.

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Does iText 7 create PDFs that are Section 508 compliant?

Tue - 07/16/2019

An article discussing using iText 7 to create PDF/UA documents that comply with Section 508 of the United States Rehabilitation Act.

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Avoiding the PDF Digital Signature Vulnerabilities with iText

Tue - 07/16/2019

Some details about digital signatures and document verification in iText.

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Digital Signatures in a Universal Application (UWP) with iText - reblog

Tue - 11/27/2018

Recently we found Paul Madary's blog post about digital signatures in a Univeral Application (UWP) with iText 7, and we wanted to share it.

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pdfHTML - release eBook & open-source version

Mon - 08/28/2017

We have released a 125-page tutorial about pdfHTML: "iText 7: converting HTML to PDF with pdfHTML." With this tutorial, we answered the #1 question of the developers who responded to our survey: the request for more documentation.

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Release of new PDF standard: PDF 2.0

Mon - 07/31/2017

The new PDF standard ISO 32000-2:2017 (PDF 2.0) has been published online!

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How to completely remove a file from a Git repository

Mon - 07/03/2017

Have you already committed an SSH private key, a password file or a config file with sensitive data to your repository before?

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DZone's Guide to Java 2017 is live!

Wed - 06/28/2017

If you believe the number of articles online, you might be inclined to believe that Java is dying, but we all know better.

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